Burke - The millionaire mystique: how working women become wealthy - and how you can, too!

Praise for The Millionaire Mystique

Dr. Jude Miller Burke is a pioneer, studying women millionaires and the personality traits and work styles that propelled them from unremarkable and challenging beginnings to astonishing success. No professional woman should work another day without it!

Kim Kiyosaki, Co-owner The Rich Dad Company.
Author of Rich Woman: A Book on Investing for
Women and Its Rising Time!: What It Really
Takes To Reach Your Financial Dreams.

Wow! I wish I had this treasure years ago. Full of jaw-dropping epiphanies a must-read for smart women who want it all. Through years of research talking to millionaires, Jude Miller Burke breaks the code of how women build wealth while also enjoying a flourishing family life.

Teri Gault, a self-made millionaire and
Founder, GroceryGames.com

Dr. Jude Miller Burke draws a compelling and well-researched map to wealth. This book is full of wisdom for everyone looking to break from old paradigms surrounding money and unlock the secret to financial freedom.

Emily Bennington, bestselling author of Who Says Its a
Mans World: The Girls Guide to Corporate Domination

As a data-driven businesswoman, I appreciated Dr. Miller Burkes solid, scientific research as the basis of her insights to The Millionaire Mystique. The stories in her book highlight that many wealthy working women are simply women who translated childhood adversity into the resiliency, focus, and drive that fueled their professional and personal success. This book should encourage all women to believe that yes they can have it all.

Dr. Archelle Georgiou, President Georgiou
Consulting and KSTP-ABC Medical Consultant

Judes book is the story of women doing well by doing good work for their organizations and communities. Her book is based on a three year research project of high-achieving women, which provides insights and advice on how to overcome obstacles and be successful. Judes years of experience in management and as a leader add to the veracity of her book. A copy of this book should be on every businesswomans desk!

Dr. Edward Bergmark, Founder and Former
CEO, OPTUM, United Healthcare

Executive coach Burke sets out to learn what makes super successful women (in this case, self-made millionaires) different from the rest of us, and discovers that her subjects have much in common with each other: many grew up in middle-class or poor families and had to overcome some kind of childhood trauma.

Burke shares insights from a number of these superstars in the hopes that their journeys will help others, with discussion of work styles, personality characteristics, relationship skills, mentors, leadership techniques, life detours, and the importance of resiliency.

Readers will find sage advice for overcoming challenges, achieving goals, and maximizing opportunities.

Publishers Weekly

How Working Women Become WealthyAnd How You Can, Too!

Jude Miller Burke, Ph.D.

First published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing in 2014.

www.nicholasbrealey.com

www.themillionairemystique.com

2014 by Jude Miller Burke

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

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ISBN: 978-1-85788-621-4
eISBN: 978-1-85788-983-3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burke, Jude Miller.
The millionaire mystique : how working women become wealthyand how you can, too! / Jude Miller Burke.
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Summary: Fifty years ago The Feminine Mystique uncovered the hidden world of the unhappy 50s housewife. In The Millionaire Mystique EAP psychologist Jude Miller Burke looks at todays self-made female millionaires and how they successfully manage career and family life. What can struggling women learn from them? Miller Burke backs up her findings using results from her scientific research study of millionaire businesswomen. Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-1-85788-621-4 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-85788-983-3 (ebook) 1. BusinesswomenUnited States. 2. Women millionaires United States. 3. Self-employed womenUnited States. 4. Wealth United States. 5. Success in businessUnited States. I. Title.
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O ver the past few years, Ive studied a group of women and men who are among the most successful in the country, all self-made millionaires and multimillionaires. I embarked on this study because I was curious about the super-successful women I had met in my professional and community work as well as the high-achieving women I read about in the media. These women seemed to have a lot in commonsuprisingly, many of them came from middle-class or poor families and quite a number even suffered some kind of childhood trauma. (Youll find the details about their backgrounds and characteristics in the appendix at the end of this book.) Yet they had figured out how to achieve admirable levels of success. They shared intimate details of their childhood backgrounds, work experiences, psychological makeup, and strategies for success.

I hope you will profit by their experience. Throughout this book they share their insights and provide you with a roadmap that will ease your way to the top. There are specific personality and work style traits youll want to develop, leadership skills to practice, education and training to receive, obstacles to overcome, and techniques to learn for balancing work with the most important job: raising the next generation of children. Lets get to work.

There are no limits unless we see ourselves as limited.

Cionne McCarthy, multimillionaire,
Russ Lyon Sothebys Realty

I live in one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country, a place of multimillion dollar homes and manicured lawns. Considering where I began, in an agricultural community in rural Minnesota, no one could be more surprised than I am that my life has brought me the kind of breakthrough success that has allowed me to live in this wealthy neighborhood. Looking back, I realize it was a bit like Dorothy arriving from Kansas to the Emerald City wonderinghow did all these people get to this beautiful place? As I started talking to people here and making friends, I realized that self-made women millionaires were all around me. They had made their money on their own through business ownership or corporate leadership, combined with good financial planning. As a psychologist, my curiosity was piqued: How had men and women in areas like these around the countryespecially the womenachieved so much?

In fact, today, it is much more likely than ever for a woman to command a healthy six-figure income and to become a millionaireor These women are not only supporting themselves and their families but are also reaching new heights both professionally and financiallyheights that were unimaginable even a decade or two ago. Women have indeed come a long way, baby. Or have they?